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> is it a net benefit to the population to add fluoride to the water supply and at a suitable price point or is there a more effective method to achieve the desired outcome What if…

Just pointing out something I recently learned that others may not be aware of -- most bottled water also has fluoride added. iirc water labeled as "distilled" cannot contain addit…

>Presumably, not everyone is good at brushing their teeth Is it fair that everyone is forced to ingest this chemical for the benefit of people who can't or won't engage in their ow…

>Hold up, all that stuff is completely unattested (and would have to be facts tried before a jury anyway). I mean, it was going to be attested until the judge decided to adjourn hi…

> They found a technicality on which they could arrest her, so they arrested her because they wanted to arrest her If by technicality you mean correctly identifying that the judge …

>For this administration specifically, the thing that has always existed wasn't an issue that demanded these actions the last time they were in office, just 4 short years ago Immig…

>Why is this an issue now when it has always existed? Because it's a relatively new phenomenon that the ruling administration enables and advocates for the import of 10 million ill…

>An economically viable solution to this problem would be simply force companies to pay all laborers, foreign or domestic, legal or illegal, a living wage Do you think that the law…

I fail to see how the lack of a perfect quantifiable metric of merit logically flows down to "stop admitting Asians because we have too many"? Whatever the university's method of d…

I know this comment is totally innocent but it does kind of bum me out to be at a point in time where instead of addressing our impact on the environment directly, we're trying to …

>I have songs I'd love to compose in my head, but it would be totally impractical for me to go through the hundreds/thousands of hours of training that would be needed to realize t…

>Yet no one with all his mind can deny that ai makes writing code faster, not necessarily better but faster, and games at the end are mostly codes. It's actually quite easy, and no…

I think the most salient point the artists make in the article is that the process of ideating and iterating on art is just as valuable, if not moreso, than the end result. You can…

What exactly am I getting wrong? You insisting that nobody hires studio musicians or orchestras, and claiming that "usually you hire one electronic musician" are both demonstrably …

Describing music to an AI is not "making music" the same way that hiring a musician and asking them to write you a rock song about a breakup is not "making music"

I don't work as a musician so it's nothing to do with job security -- I think that using artists' output without their consent in order to train a soulless AI model for some tech m…

This is already easily solved by using royalty-free music or by licensing pre-made music from numerous publicly available sound libraries online -- with the added benefit of suppor…

> if the user of the AI doesn't do any of the above then I think the US copyright office says it can't be copyrighted in the first place (so no profiting for them anyway). Am I und…

I think we intuitively allow for artists to derive and interpolate from their influences because of a baseline understanding that A) it is impossible to create art without influenc…

The difference being that a musician being influenced by other musicians still has to work to develop the skills necessary to distill those influences into a final product, and col…